Improvement in peat-machines



H. MIELISOH.

PHAT MACHINE.

No. 112,830. Patented Mar. 21, 1871.

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Letters Patent N0. 112,830, dated March 21, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT IN FEAT-MACHINES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the lame.

I, HERMANN Mmmscn, of Racine, in the county of Racine, in the-State of Wisconsin, have invented.

certain Improvements. in Peat-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

Nature and Object of the Invention.

My invention is for a machine for cutting peat from.

Dcscript-ion of the Drawing forming part of this Specification.

Figure 1 is a side view;

Figure 2, a back view; and

Figure 3, a sectional view.

General Description.

A is theframe of the machine.

B, the wooden track on which the machine rests.

O, sliding frame, ,on which the digging or cutting apparatus travels back and forth,

D, frame of thecutting apparatus.

E, rollers, working on the sliding frame 0.

F, stop in the cutting-apparatus frame 0,

G, slide, in which the cutting-apparatus shaft slides up and down.

H, shaft of cutting apparatus.

1, wheel and pinion, meshing into rack on the back side of shaft H, and. with which it is raised and lowcred.

K, itop on .snde G, to hold the cutting apparatus at any height. I Y

L, knife and box, to out, and hold the peat.

M, pointer, to strike a stone or other hard substance and protect the knife.

N, sliding knife, to cut the peat at the bottom and hold it in the box L.

O, rollers. V y

1, chain and straps, passing round rollers O and connected at the top to levers Q and 1t.

'llicsc straps are arranged so that they may be shortened or lengthened according to the depth that the knife L may want to out. p

S S, weights and ropes on the ends of levers Q'and Rto keep the straps P tight, and to pull the lovers so as to close and open the bottom of box L.

'lfl, supports and frame to box L, to hold the body or column of peat. I

U, pin, on frame A, passing down into the wooden track B, to hold the machine firmly in position.

V,.a lever, the end pointed to catch into the holes inwooden track B, to move the machine back and forth.

W, a supportingstand, to be placed under one end of the machine and set on the ground to hold it up.

X X, braces, 'running from the sliding-frame 0 back to the back end 'of the bed of the frame.

To operate this machine, first dig a small hole for N forward and cut the peat at the bottom and .hold' it in the box L; then raise the cutting apparatus with pinion and wheel I- and shove instop K to hold it up 'in place then with a shovel cut out thepcat and remove it, and it can be carried away in any manner thought best, and the cutting apparatus can be moved on the rollers E, and so on.

The machine can be balanced so as to make it set '-level by piling stones or something else on platform Z.,

Claim.

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination of rack-shaft H, pinion I, cut

tor-box L, sliding cutter N, straps P,.and levers Q and B, substantially as described. 2. The shaft H, with its operating mechanism, in combination with the sliding frame and the stop F, substantially as set forth.

HERMANN' MIELISCH. Witnesses:

W. M. Homvon, J. B. SMITH.

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